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Paris-based Backup Media Group has appointed Guillaume Lirondière as partner while founding principal Jean-Baptiste Babin steps down from operational functions at Backup Films. This is a notable shift at the top of the finance, production and distribution outfit that Babin runs with longtime colleagues and friends…

Former Fidélité Films CFO/COO Guillaume Lirondière has joined Paris-based finance, production and distribution outfit Backup Media (Still Alice) as COO. The exec will spearhead production and finance at Backup with founding partners Jean-Baptiste Babin, David Atlan Jackson and Joël Thibout. Backup is entering a new…

James McAvoy has attached himself to star in director Wim Wenders’ film Submergence. Based on the book by J.M. Ledgard, it’s a romantic thriller about two lovers “immersed in life-or-death situations and separated by thousands of miles, who find solace in the memories of their intense romance the previous Christmas…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael C. Hall, whose final season as Showtime’s signature serial killer Dexter starts June 30, has just landed the lead role in Cold In July. That’s the feature adaptation of the Joe Lansdale cult novel that will be directed by Jim Mickle, whose horror film We Are What We Are just played at the Cannes…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based Backup Media has teamed up with Memento Films International to finance Cold In July, an adaptation of the Joe Lansdale cult novel that will be director Jim Mickle‘s next film. Mickle’s We Are What We Are is playing in Directors’ Fortnight section here at Cannes. Shooting on Cold In July begins…

Film financing group BackUp Media is joining forces with Groupe 1, the company founded in 2002 by former Studio Canal exec Daniel Marquet. The new partnership will source and represent 10-15 international projects per year with budgets up to 30M euros. The parties will look to work with independent film & TV producers…